 If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save Slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount...  The Century: 1888-89 - Page 4251889Full view - About this book
 | Richard Striner - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...Union, at least in his official capacity as president. "My paramount object in this struggle," he wrote, "is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it... | |
 | T. Thomas Fortune - Social Science - 2007 - 257 pages
...sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be the Union it was. * * * If there be those who would not save the Union, unless...the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it... | |
 | Matthew S. Holland - Religion - 2007 - 340 pages
...emancipation, Lincoln publicly explained to Horace Greeley (editor of the influential New York Tribune) that "my paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery." This hardly contravenes the point just made about Lincoln's commitment to the Declaration.... | |
 | Patrick J. Buchanan - Political Science - 2007 - 316 pages
...Fremont should not have dragged the negro into it."13 As he wrote Horace Greeley with raw honesty, My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it... | |
 | James W. Loewen - Education - 2007 - 464 pages
...fifteen of the eighteen books, is his letter of August 22, 1862, to Horace Greeley's New York Tribune: My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it... | |
 | Robert H. Ferrell - History - 2007 - 363 pages
...emphatic. "Now is the time" To underline his argument, he told Horace Greeley in the New York Tribune: "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it... | |
 | Gloria J. Browne-Marshall - Law - 2007 - 430 pages
...discussing the Black migration North of the 1800s), 117-118. 65. Ibid. 66. Abraham Lincoln, August 22, 1862. "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could... | |
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